Improvement in self-acting eyelet-battens



UNITED ASTATES PATENT OEEIcE.

SILAS LAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.-

IMPRCVEMENT IN SELFACTING EYELET-BATTENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 64,016, dated April 23, 1867.

To all whom 'it may concern'.-

Be it known that I, SILAS LAND, of the 1 cit) and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Acting Eyelet-Battens 5 and I do hereby declare that the follow ing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in conning battens to the backs of signs, or other boards, by means of the use of slotted eyelets constructed of cast-iron or other suitable- `is a plan of a board with the improvement attached to the battens. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

A is a board, which has a joint, a. B B are the battens, on the outer surface of which are placed eyelets C, through the slots b of which the confining-screws D pass. The slots have beveled sides to receive the heads of the screws.

The eyelets operate as follows: When the board shrinks, the slots in the eyelets allow the heads of the screws to change their position in accommodation thereto, and thus prevent the drawing of the two pieces it' apart, as occurs in the usual mode of battening. Besides preventing the breaking of the joint, the screws being allowed to change their position relatively toward the joint, the improvement acts auxilarly to the battens in preventing the warping of the board.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combinationof the slotted eyelets C with battens B, arranged and operating in relation to signs or other boards, substantially in the manner described, and for the purposes sILAs LAND. [Ls] Witnesses:

STEPHEN UsTIcK, JOHN WHITE. 

